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Far From The Madding Crowd By Thomas Hardy 1840 1928 - 1,703 words
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1840 -
1928) Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
(1840 - 1928) Type of Work: Characterization and
psychological novel Setting "Wessex," England;
1869 to 1873 Principal Characters Bathsheba
Everdene, a capricious young lady Gabriel Oak, a
dependable shepherd Mr. Boldwood, a staid, wealthy
farmer Sergeant Frank Troy, an unscrupulous
soldier Fannie Robin, Troy's secret lover Story
Overveiw Gabriel Oak quietly scrutinized his new
neighbor from across the hedge. Bathsheba Everdene
appeared to be an overly-proud woman, but he found
himself attracted by her. Oak's ability and
initiative had taken him from humble origins to
become a respected shephe ...
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Wordsworth Begins His Extended Metaphor In The Third Line Of The Poem, With His Speaker Saying, I Saw A Crowd, A Host, Of Gol - 331 words
Wordsworth begins his extended metaphor in the
third line of the poem, with his speaker saying,
"I saw a crowd, / a host, of golden daffodils"
that were "fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
(line 6). The speaker is attributing to these
daffodils human qualities: their forming a crowd,
and their dancing. That the speaker has "wandered
lonely as a cloud" (1) introduces the speaker as
one content to be apart from other people. The
speaker admits that he enjoys his being apart from
other men when he speaks of himself as a peaceful
cloud that "floats on high oer vales and hills"
(1). The image of a cloud floating is tranquil,
and suggests that the speaker is pleased to be
drifting alone. The s ...
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100 Years Of History - 1,762 words
100 Years of History CURRENT EVENTS: 1945-1996
1945 On April 12 Harry S. Truman became President
of the United States of America., In Washington,
D.C. On August 6 at 9:15 a.m. US fighter planes
dropped an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Japan. In
Berlin, Germany on April 30, Adolf Hitler was
found dead, Hitler committed suicide. 1946 On
October 16 in Nurenburg, 9 Nazi war criminals were
hanged for the crimes during WW II. On April 25
Big Four Ministers met in Paris to finalize a
treaty with Germany, to end WWII. In Austria
Queens New York, on October 22, Chester Carlos
tried his experiment that is commonly known as the
Xerox machine. 1947 On November 20, in England,
Queen Elizabeth gets married to ...
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The Scarlet Letter - 713 words
During the romanticism period, Nathaniel Hawthorne
wrote the novel, The Scarlet Letter, which used
the romanticist idea of deep intuition and inner
feelings, allowing the characters to have insight
of the plots and secrets hidden in the strict
Puritan community that they lived in. Throughout
the novel many of the characters have this
intuition, making the book more alluring to
readers when trying figuring out what each
character really knows. At the beginning of the
novel, we are shown Pearl's natural child-like
instincts for the Preacher, who is actually her
father. When Pearl was first a baby, Hester and
her were shamed on the scaffold while Reverend
Dimmesdale, her father, preached to the ...
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1984 By George Orwell 1903 1950 - 1,843 words
1984 by George Orwell (1903 - 1950) 1984 by George
Orwell (1903 - 1950) Type of Work: Futuristic,
cautionary novel Setting London, in the mythical
country of Oceania; 1984 (in the future) Principal
Characters Winston Smith, a rebel against society
Julia, his lover Mr. Charrington, an elderly
antique shop owner O'Brien, the only member of the
Inner Party Winston trusts Story Overveiw As
Winston Smith entered his apartment building, he
passed a familiar poster. "It was one of those
pictures which are so contrived that the eyes
follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS
WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran." Then
Winston opened the door to his flat to be greeted
by a voice on his "teles ...
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21199 - 1,059 words
2/11/99 Engl. 108 Final Essay Society's Influence
Throughout time society has played a major role in
determining what are to be the expected and
appropriate actions of a person. Social pressure
is common in every facet of life. It influences
our every decision in some way, be it positive or
negative. Sometimes we are pressured into doing
something that we would not normally do even
though we know it's wrong. In the short stories
"Salvation" by Langston Hughes and "Shooting an
Elephant" by George Orwell, there are strong
examples of society pressuring people into doing
something that they would not normally do and that
they don't want to do. The short story "Salvation"
is about a twelve year ...
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65279the Establishment In The 1960s - 1,012 words
The Establishment in the 1960's The nineteen
sixties were times of great change. Many people
went from moderates to radicals because of the
environment around them. That environment was
called the establishment. It included all of the
events going on in the nineteen sixties. Some of
the main events taking place were the Vietnam War,
the government, the Democratic National Convention
and the culture (*). Many protested things that
they did not believe in or thought was wrong (*).
There were many things that made the radical's
different from the moderates. They were the music
they listened to and the clothes they wore. Most
obviously was the way they acted. In the summer of
1967, society and r ...
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65279the Establishment In The 1960s - 982 words
... more than 180,000 by the end of the year and
to 500,000 by 1968. Johnson did not have the same
views as some of the radicals. He wanted to keep
the United States in the Vietnam War, while the
radicals did not. Richard Nixon was the
thirty-seventh president after Lyndon Johnson.
Nixon didnt believe in the Vietnam War as highly
as Johnson. In 1973, after four years of war in
Vietnam, the administration managed to arrange a
cease-fire that would last long enough to allow
U.S. departure from Vietnam. Nixon had very
different views then the radicals. He thought that
all of the protestors were rebels who should have
action taken against them. Even though he ordered
the departure of all United ...
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Spending Financed Not By Current Tax Receipts, But By - 1,531 words
"Spending financed not by current tax receipts,
but by borrowing or drawing upon past tax
reserves." , Is it a good idea? Why does the U.S.
run a deficit? Since 1980 the deficit has grown
enormously. Some say its a bad thing, and predict
impending doom, others say it is a safe and stable
necessity to maintain a healthy economy. When the
U.S. government came into existence and for about
a 150 years thereafter the government managed to
keep a balanced budget. The only times a budget
deficit existed during these first 150 years were
in times of war or other catastrophic events. The
Government, for instance, generated deficits
during the War of 1812, the recession of 1837, the
Civil War, the dep ...
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A Birth Of A Nation The Bicycle Thieves - 1,300 words
A Birth Of A Nation - The Bicycle Thieves In that
paper, I will try to compare two films which are A
Birth of a Nation directed by D.W.Griffith and The
Bicycle Thieves directed by De Sica. After giving
the story of the films, I will try to explain
their technical features and their similarities. A
Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith Griffith can
be seen as the first 'modern' director, his
greatest achievements being the historical epics
The Birth Of A Nation. When it was released, it
was one of the longest films ever made, over three
hours in length. The prologue depicts the
introduction of slavery to America in the
seventeenth century and the beginnings of the
abolitionist movement. The maj ...
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A Brave New World Aldous Huxley 81932, 1946 Aldous Huxley Harpercollins Publishers Ltd Ny,ny 10022 - 1,168 words
A Brave New World. Aldous Huxley. 81932, 1946
Aldous Huxley. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
NY,NY. 10022 . P 1 AA squat grey building of only
thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the
words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING
CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State=s motto,
COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.@ Here is a
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oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.@
AThe lower the caste . . . the shorter the
oxygen.@ P 19 AThey hurried out of the room and
returned in a minute or two, each pushing a kind
of tall dumb-waiter laden, on all its four
wire-netted shelves, with eight-month-old b ...
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A Broken Wing - 829 words
A Broken Wing A Broken Wing What is it like to be
free? Bobbie Ann Mason, the author of Shiloh puts
Norma Jean Moffitt through different tests in her
life before she can find her freedom. Mason
introduces us to a character who yearns to be free
from her husband and mother. Throughout Norma
Jeans life she has dealt with many difficult and
trying times that sometimes may not make sense to
her and finally this thirty-four-year-old woman is
ready to spread her wings; fly away and see what
it is like to be free. Throughout the story, Norma
Jeans desire to be free is evident in tasks that
she is taking on that she would not normally do,
leaving her mother and husband blind to the fact
that change ...
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A Comparison Of Biographic Features In The Sun Also Rises And The Great Gatsby - 1,268 words
... doesn't.1) Gatsby is gullible for beliving
Daisy when she tells him she loved him, when it is
clear to both the reader and nick that her only
concern is money and wealth. When she tells him
that she loved Tom too, the words seemed to bite
physically into Gatsby.2) This shows the romantic
idealized views of Gatsby. Hemingway and The Sun
Also Rises Like Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby,
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway contains
autobiographical features that illuminate the work
and add to the meaning of the novel. However, the
plot behind The Sun Also Rises is more exactly
based on actual events in Hemingway's life than
The Great Gatsby was to Fitzgerald's life. Indeed,
the entire plot ...
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A Few Good Men - 713 words
A Few Good Men Courtroom drama is a popular type
of film which involves at least one trial and pin
points much of the emotion and tension within a
court of law . A Few Good Men is an emotional
story of two military men accused of killing a
young soldier . Tom Cruise play's Danny Kaffe ,
the smart mouth defense lawyer , and Demi Moore
play's Joe Galloway , his nosy special council .
The movie starts of by showing us the plot and
then begins to tell the story . Compared to other
movies with the same genre , I'd have to say this
is one of the best . It was boring at times but it
did it's best to show action through words . The
music is very soft and sets the mood . It gives
the viewers a tingli ...
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A Holiday For The Virgins - 522 words
A Holiday For The Virgins A Holiday for the
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John Keats, gave up his medical training and
devoted himself full time to a literary career. In
1820 Keats became ill with tuberculosis. The
illness may have been aggravated by the emotional
strain of his attachment to Fanny Brawne, a young
woman with whom he had fallen in love( ).
Nevertheless, the period from 1 ...
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A Patriarchal World Assimilation - 1,578 words
A Patriarchal World --Assimilation A Patriarchal
World John Bodnar says it well when he suggests
that the center of everyday life was to be found
in the family-household. It was here that past
values and present realities were reconciled,
examined on an intelligible scale, evaluated and
mediated. This assertion implies that the
immigrant family-household is the vehicle of
assimilation. I will take this assertion a step
further and examine more specifically the powerful
role of the patriarchal father within Anzia
Yezierska's book Bread Givers and Barry Levinson's
film Avalon. Yezierska's theme vividly depicts the
constraint of a patriarchal world, while Levinson
illustrates the process of ass ...
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A Peoples History Of The United States Chapter Four Summary - 831 words
A People's History Of The United States Chapter
Four Summary As the British and Colonists were
engaged in the Seven Years War against the French
and Indians, the colonists were slowly building up
feelings for their removal from under the British
crown. There had been several uprisings to
overthrow the colonial governments. When the war
ended and the British were victorious, they
declared the Proclamation of 1763 which stated
that the land west of the Appalachians was to be
reserved for the Native American population. The
colonists were confused and outraged and the now
ambitious social elite's were raring to direct
that anger against the English since the French
were no longer a threat. Howe ...
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A Separate Peace: Chapter 1 - 5,644 words
^^^^^^^^^^A SEPARATE PEACE: CHAPTER 1 Have you
ever in your life gone through an experience so
intense, so joyful, so painful, or just so
important at the time, that you could only
understand much later what truly happened? Isn't
it a fact that when we're in the middle of an
experience, we are often unable to think clearly
about it because we're too busy feeling the
moment's thrill or sadness to stop and come to
sensible conclusions? Our high school years are
just such a time: of quick growth and
self-discovery, of forging as well as breaking
friendships, of proving ourselves to others, in
the classroom and on the sports field, and a time
when we want very much to be individuals and to
stick ...
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A Separate Peace: Chapter 1 - 5,662 words
... truth, the shadowy, elusive truth of an
instant that is already beginning to fade in
memory. Gene is about to make a full
confession--or he thinks he is--when Dr. Stanpole
and the nurse arrive. The following day Finny is
sent home to recuperate. The summer session comes
to an end, appropriately enough for Gene, for
until now summer had represented freedom, sports,
and running outdoors, with Finny as the light and
life of it all. Now all that has changed. A month
later, after a sojourn at home, Gene heads back to
school for his senior year. On the way he makes a
detour to call on Finny. NOTE: The "surprise"
reunion is no surprise to Finny, who appears to
have been waiting anxiously in hop ...
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A Sick Man's Precious Life - 1,043 words
A Sick Man'S Precious Life Technology has been a
part of everyone's life. It can be found
everywhere, in homes, in education and even in the
field of medicine. Technology lead to the further
development of healing and curing. Because of it,
doctors can cure patients more easily and
effectively. However, technology is not always an
advantage. It has brought several unacceptable
ideas, one of which is the ending of a suffering
patient's life. This is more popularly known as
euthanasia. Euthanasia, from its Greek origin
meaning easy death or dying well, is an action or
omission which of itself or by intention caused
death in order that all suffering may be
eliminated. Euthanasia is more than ki ...
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